California smash-and-grab at Macy’s occurs at same mall where dozens of looters robbed Nordstrom last year

Authorities in California are investigating a smash-and-grab theft at a Macy’s in Walnut Creek Saturday morning after three suspects stole high-end watches earlier than fleeing the scene, officers mentioned. 

The Walnut Creek Police Department mentioned “three black male adult suspects” entered the shop situated within the Broadway Plaza purchasing middle at roughly 10:48 a.m., once they started “smashing jewelry display cases with hammers.”

The suspects, all carrying hoods and masks to impede figuring out components, stole the property and fled the scene.

Last year, dozens of suspects robbed the Broadway Plaza Nordstrom in what witnesses described as a brazen theft like one thing “out of a movie.”  

The suspects in Saturday’s theft have been seen fleeing in a white older mannequin 4-door Honda sedan, mentioned WCPD PIO Lieutenant Holley Connors.

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Walnut Creek Police mentioned no Macy’s workers or prospects have been harmed in the course of the incident.

“Macy’s is still inventorying the loss and estimated cost to repair the damages,” Conners added.

The WCPD is constant to analyze the incident and extra particulars weren’t offered.

Broadway Plaza is situated in Walnut Creek’s downtown space and contains a number of higher-end shops, together with the Nordstrom robbed late last year.

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Between 50 and 80 looters entered the shop simply earlier than 9 p.m. in late November once they grabbed merchandise and fled, police mentioned.

Witnesses described the chaotic theft as “insane.” 

California has endured a latest plague of smash-and-grab robberies together with…

…a number of smash-and-grabber robbers rushed right into a Princess Bride Diamonds jewellery retailer, situated in Bella Terra mall in Huntington Beach earlier than employees bodily fought off the would-be thieves.

…robbers broke show circumstances with hammers at a Kay Jewelers within the Brea Mall, close to downtown Los Angeles, earlier than stealing merchandise and fleeing.

…thieves broke into the “Heart of Gold” jewellery retailer in San Jose earlier than strolling out with greater than $100,000 price of merchandise. 

…smash-and-grab robbers made off with $5 million in stolen merchandise from a Beverly Hills jewellery retailer, Luxury Jewels, after coming into the shop in broad daylight with sledgehammers. 

…a trio of brazen thieves stole from a Forever 21 at the Los Cerritos Center in Los Angeles after which a Sephora retailer within the same purchasing middle.

Some residents have attributed robberies like these to liberal insurance policies enacted by district attorneys.

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District Attorney Diane Becton of Contra Costa County, which incorporates Walnut Creek, for instance, has instructed her personal prosecutors to think about looters’ “needs” in theft circumstances.

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Becton additionally instructed investigators to find out whether or not “the theft was committed for financial gain or personal need” earlier than charging them, native news outlet East County Today reported.

Anyone with information on the Walnut Creek crime is inspired to name the WCPD at 925-943-5865.